Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 61 62
Rank change year-on-year -53 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,516 1,898 3,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.31% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.62% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 1,034 2,750
10th Percentile £48,289 £48,860 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,081
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,169 £102,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,575 41,082 82,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 93.28% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 43,564 22,321 59,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 1,376 £75,000 - 542
London +4 714 £86,250 +1.47% 239
UK excluding London -115 673 £67,500 -3.57% 350
Work from Home -33 649 £70,000 - 734
North of England -63 304 £69,310 -3.74% 110
South East -67 161 £67,500 - 99
North West -66 150 £72,500 - 73
Yorkshire -36 98 £69,310 -4.40% 19
Midlands -100 66 £67,500 +3.85% 41
South West -81 61 £52,500 -23.39% 47
North East +4 56 £65,000 +18.18% 18
West Midlands -67 46 £77,500 +10.71% 23
East of England -37 39 £60,100 +0.17% 20
Scotland -74 33 £65,000 -15.48% 17
East Midlands -79 19 £66,000 +5.60% 18
Wales -36 9 £53,171 +2.25% 9
Northern Ireland -32 7 £62,500 +25.00% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.19%) Confluence
3 16 (1.06%) Apache
4 14 (0.92%) IIS
4 14 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 13 (0.86%) CMS
5 13 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.73%) JBoss
7 10 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.40%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) Drupal
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.46%) Maya
2 7 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.066%) Actimize
6 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.066%) Quorum
6 1 (0.066%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.066%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.066%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 809 (53.36%) AWS
2 623 (41.09%) Azure
3 305 (20.12%) GCP
4 247 (16.29%) Serverless
5 152 (10.03%) SaaS
6 127 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (8.38%) GitHub
7 116 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (6.93%) Amazon S3
9 93 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
10 85 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
12 70 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
13 64 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 48 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (3.03%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.97%) Datadog
18 42 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.96%) Broadband
2 20 (1.32%) Network Security
3 10 (0.66%) DNS
3 10 (0.66%) HTTP
4 9 (0.59%) MQTT
5 8 (0.53%) Internet
5 8 (0.53%) VPN
6 7 (0.46%) AMQP
6 7 (0.46%) Firewall
7 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.40%) DHCP
7 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.33%) LTE
9 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) RFID
9 3 (0.20%) SNMP
9 3 (0.20%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (12.80%) NoSQL
2 188 (12.40%) MongoDB
3 179 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (5.74%) MySQL
5 86 (5.67%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 74 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (3.89%) DynamoDB
9 48 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.51%) Redis
12 33 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.98%) Big Data
14 23 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.86%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.73%) DB2
16 11 (0.73%) Power BI
17 9 (0.59%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.46%) Metadata
18 7 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (12.80%) Git
2 138 (9.10%) GitLab
3 130 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.63%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.97%) JIRA
6 39 (2.57%) JUnit
7 36 (2.37%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.11%) CircleCI
8 32 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.72%) Mockito
10 25 (1.65%) Maven
11 22 (1.45%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.19%) SonarQube
13 17 (1.12%) Selenium
14 16 (1.06%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.99%) Vite
16 13 (0.86%) JMeter
17 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
18 7 (0.46%) NUnit
18 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 438 (28.89%) Finance
2 304 (20.05%) Social Skills
3 160 (10.55%) Banking
4 125 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.33%) Law
6 95 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (5.34%) Retail
8 71 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.36%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.84%) Back Office
11 39 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.25%) Legal
14 18 (1.19%) Billing
15 17 (1.12%) Marketing
16 16 (1.06%) Advertising
16 16 (1.06%) Games
17 14 (0.92%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.79%) Front Office
19 10 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 521 (34.37%) Developer
2 396 (26.12%) Senior
3 302 (19.92%) Software Engineer
4 218 (14.38%) Architect
5 205 (13.52%) Lead
6 133 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 126 (8.31%) Java Developer
8 120 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 104 (6.86%) Java Engineer
10 102 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 100 (6.60%) .NET Developer
12 88 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 58 (3.83%) Software Developer
15 56 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 54 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
17 51 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
18 46 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
19 45 (2.97%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (21.97%) React
2 328 (21.64%) .NET
3 281 (18.54%) RESTful
4 267 (17.61%) Node.js
5 245 (16.16%) Spring
6 223 (14.71%) Spring Boot
7 219 (14.45%) REST
8 192 (12.66%) Kafka
9 127 (8.38%) AngularJS
10 111 (7.32%) .NET Core
11 100 (6.60%) ASP.NET
12 92 (6.07%) gRPC
12 92 (6.07%) Vue
13 86 (5.67%) HTML
14 77 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
15 76 (5.01%) CSS
16 69 (4.55%) .NET Framework
17 67 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
18 55 (3.63%) OAuth
19 50 (3.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 427 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 258 (17.02%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 83 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 62 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.97%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.78%) Blockchain
11 27 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
15 18 (1.19%) Onboarding
15 18 (1.19%) PKI
15 18 (1.19%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.67%) Linux
2 42 (2.77%) Windows
3 20 (1.32%) Unix
4 10 (0.66%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (49.08%) CI/CD
2 621 (40.96%) Agile
3 563 (37.14%) DevOps
4 556 (36.68%) Software Engineering
5 387 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 378 (24.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 347 (22.89%) Mentoring
8 305 (20.12%) Test Automation
9 294 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 290 (19.13%) Event-Driven
11 287 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
12 285 (18.80%) AI
13 261 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 197 (12.99%) Scrum
15 178 (11.74%) Computer Science
16 176 (11.61%) Coaching
16 176 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
17 175 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 167 (11.02%) Clean Code
19 165 (10.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 504 (33.25%) Java
2 406 (26.78%) Python
3 325 (21.44%) JavaScript
4 323 (21.31%) SQL
5 301 (19.85%) C#
6 244 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 130 (8.58%) Go
8 50 (3.30%) Scala
9 47 (3.10%) C++
9 47 (3.10%) PHP
10 39 (2.57%) Bash
11 32 (2.11%) C
12 29 (1.91%) Ruby
13 23 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 22 (1.45%) Rust
15 19 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.25%) Shell Script
16 18 (1.19%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.92%) Groovy
18 10 (0.66%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 184 (12.14%) Degree
2 165 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 106 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 101 (6.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.76%) AWS Certification
6 29 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.65%) CISSP
9 21 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.73%) CISM
14 8 (0.53%) PhD
15 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.60%) QA
2 36 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.98%) GDPR
3 30 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.52%) NIST
6 19 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.79%) GRC
8 11 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.66%) NCSC
10 9 (0.59%) WCAG
11 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.40%) IFRS
13 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) SLA
15 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.066%) EMIR
System Software
1 449 (29.62%) Docker
2 14 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.066%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 481 (31.73%) Kubernetes
2 283 (18.67%) Terraform
3 85 (5.61%) Ansible
4 83 (5.47%) Grafana
5 47 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.72%) Argo
7 22 (1.45%) Kibana
8 18 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.86%) Puppet
10 10 (0.66%) Cilium
11 9 (0.59%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 4 (0.26%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 164 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.35%) Google
3 49 (3.23%) Oracle
4 45 (2.97%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 20 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.12%) Splunk
8 16 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.92%) IBM
10 13 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.59%) Adobe
12 9 (0.59%) Cisco
12 9 (0.59%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.59%) SAP
13 7 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.40%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.40%) Juniper
14 6 (0.40%) Software AG